CNN)Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff won the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat, CNN projected Thursday, becoming a standard bearer for a party increasingly hopeful of taking the Republican Southern stronghold in 2020.
Ossoff garnered over 50% of the vote, avoiding a runoff despite fierce competition from other Democrats. He will now face incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue in the fall.
"The President of the United States and his allies in Congress are leading this country down a dark path," Ossoff said in a livestream to his supporters Wednesday night. "We can no longer go down a path of authoritarianism, of racism, of corruption. We are better than this, and Georgia is better than this."
Ossoff's victory was called after an Election Day fiasco. State officials launched investigations into a new system that cost over $100 million before the polls even closed on Tuesday, unsettled by reports of hours-long lines and machines that were misused, missing or malfunctioning. County and state officials blamed each other for the debacle.
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